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June deliveries, share your pain and suffering here.

Rokeneer said:
It just updated and shipped!!! I can't wait for it to come in!

EDIT:

Just got this text: "Apple Store: Good news! Items in order WXXXXXXXXX have shipped and will deliver by Apr 29, 2015. For more info:..."

Apparently they're going by overnight shipping now? I don't mind it's just always been ground for me.
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What watch? Congrats
 
Madrox199 said:
Ordered SG 42 watch, been 3 weeks and still no change.
Spoke to Apple specialist and everything looks okay on my order.
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It appears that the Space Grey stocks have been in really short supply, or are more demanded than the others. My personal opinion is that it is most likely the former but caused by the latter due to the iPhone/iPad trends. Apple has for a long time had plenty of SG stock, but HUGE shortages of White/Gold stock. I would imagine that's probably what they planned for (as would be logical), but demand ended up exactly the opposite. There's really no way a switch like that could have been predicted.

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JoshuaLove said:
What watch? Congrats
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42mm White Sport from the USA.
 
Rokeneer said:
It appears that the Space Grey stocks have been in really short supply, or are more demanded than the others. My personal opinion is that it is most likely the former but caused by the latter due to the iPhone/iPad trends. Apple has for a long time had plenty of SG stock, but HUGE shortages of White/Gold stock. I would imagine that's probably what they planned for (as would be logical), but demand ended up exactly the opposite. There's really no way a switch like that could have been predicted.

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42mm White Sport from the USA.
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Thats what I heard also.
 
38mm sport white ordered on the 23d . Bumped yesterday to May 20-June 2 is now preparing for shipment !
 
No one who ordered the leather loop combination has had theirs shipped and nothing from Apple as to why.
 
mrboba1 said:
The curse of the Space Gray. :(
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For me, this is what is so infuriating: had it been clearer what models were going to be uber-backordered sooner (even say, by the 15th or so), I would have abandoned ship on the SG and gone for something else. A strategy that is clearly working for many people.

But because the true picture of the plight of the SG'ers took so long to become clear, there are now (likely) thousands of us chumps who are going to very likely be waiting all the way up until June for our orders.

Instead of failing to give any sort of insight into where we stood in the first few days after pre-orders started, Apple left us in the dark, and now we're more or less stuck - either take the chance on another model being available sooner (which Apple reps apparently, and amazingly appear to have no info about), or risk getting even farther back in line.

I'm sorry, but nearly 2 months for a pre-order to arrive is just terrible, horrendous customer service, no matter how you justify it, especially when thousands of customers are getting their orders now.

I for one will never again take part in an Apple pre-order. After this debacle, I see no reason to reward them with any sort of loyalty when they are so unwilling (or unable, which is hard to imagine given the resources at their disposal) to be up front with people.
 
Just got teased by Apple.

Got an email today at 11:13am CST with the heading "Apple Watch is here". It was just their promotional email on the product like they send with other ones. I was like no it isn't. It's still processing with a May 21 to June 4 delivery timeline lol.

Anyone else get this email?
 
bashmagic said:
For me, this is what is so infuriating: had it been clearer what models were going to be uber-backordered sooner (even say, by the 15th or so), I would have abandoned ship on the SG and gone for something else. A strategy that is clearly working for many people.

But because the true picture of the plight of the SG'ers took so long to become clear, there are now (likely) thousands of us chumps who are going to very likely be waiting all the way up until June for our orders.

Instead of failing to give any sort of insight into where we stood in the first few days after pre-orders started, Apple left us in the dark, and now we're more or less stuck - either take the chance on another model being available sooner (which Apple reps apparently, and amazingly appear to have no info about), or risk getting even farther back in line.

I'm sorry, but nearly 2 months for a pre-order to arrive is just terrible, horrendous customer service, no matter how you justify it, especially when thousands of customers are getting their orders now.

I for one will never again take part in an Apple pre-order. After this debacle, I see no reason to reward them with any sort of loyalty when they are so unwilling (or unable, which is hard to imagine given the resources at their disposal) to be up front with people.
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But you don't really know how long it's going to be. It's day 5 after launch.
 
mrboba1 said:
But you don't really know how long it's going to be. It's day 5 after launch.
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5 days after launch, but 18 days after the beginning of preorders. That's quite a long time for Apple to have gotten their house in order.

And it's looking increasingly like June is when we'll receive our orders. Frankly I believe the latest round of EODs (4-6 weeks from now for me for a SG 42 BSB ordered at 8am on the 10th).
 
bashmagic said:
5 days after launch, but 18 days after the beginning of preorders. That's quite a long time for Apple to have gotten their house in order.

And it's looking increasingly like June is when we'll receive our orders. Frankly I believe the latest round of EODs (4-6 weeks from now for me for a SG 42 BSB ordered at 8am on the 10th).
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But yesterday watches that were due to ship in June were moved to May 21 at the earliest, and they are now in their owners' hands.
 
Continuing to wait for my 42mm SG Sport that I ordered on the 22nd. Being patient, gotta have that space grey case. Band doesn't really matter to me, I plan on getting a blue leather loop anyway.
 
mrboba1 said:
But yesterday watches that were due to ship in June were moved to May 21 at the earliest, and they are now in their owners' hands.
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I'd guess those are still probably orders that were placed in the first few minutes. I'm many hours behind them in line.
 
bashmagic said:
For me, this is what is so infuriating: had it been clearer what models were going to be uber-backordered sooner (even say, by the 15th or so), I would have abandoned ship on the SG and gone for something else. A strategy that is clearly working for many people.

But because the true picture of the plight of the SG'ers took so long to become clear, there are now (likely) thousands of us chumps who are going to very likely be waiting all the way up until June for our orders.

Instead of failing to give any sort of insight into where we stood in the first few days after pre-orders started, Apple left us in the dark, and now we're more or less stuck - either take the chance on another model being available sooner (which Apple reps apparently, and amazingly appear to have no info about), or risk getting even farther back in line.

I'm sorry, but nearly 2 months for a pre-order to arrive is just terrible, horrendous customer service, no matter how you justify it, especially when thousands of customers are getting their orders now.

I for one will never again take part in an Apple pre-order. After this debacle, I see no reason to reward them with any sort of loyalty when they are so unwilling (or unable, which is hard to imagine given the resources at their disposal) to be up front with people.
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You have a point, but Apple couldn't predict the demand and how it may or may not change. Aside from the fact that this is online only, they aren't doing anything different than any other pre-order. They're not keeping you in the dark about anything. 2 months for a preorder isn't bad, iPhones went out to 6 weeks this last launch and this is a new product so you can expect it to be longer. I preordered a zagg screen protector for my watch. No shipping or lead time estimates, all I know is that I preordered it and it will come sometime in the future. Plus you have to remember that is worst case scenario, it will likely move up by several weeks once production ramps, yields increase, and more lines are added/converted for Space Grey. I would bet you'll have it by the end of May.

And unless you can find a way to turn assembled, ready to ship silver watches to grey, Apple is doing exactly as they should and filling orders as they are able. It doesn't make sense for them (or any company) to hold all orders just so everyone can get it at the same time.
 
bashmagic said:
I'd guess those are still probably orders that were placed in the first few minutes. I'm many hours behind them in line.
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Nope. April 12, 4:30 pm ET.

Edit: Things are changing quickly. I never would have thought my watch would have even a chance of being here in April, but based on others, I have a good feeling that it will be by Friday. My mom, who ordered at the exact same time as I (in the store) now has hers, when as of Sunday, it still said June.

Edit 2: All I'm saying is, "don't give up hope!"
 
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